Job 19:2
“Until when do you afflict my soul, || And bruise me with words?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
In Context
3These ten times you put me to shame, you do not blush. You make yourselves strange to me—
Cross References
Judges 16:16And it comes to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and urges him, and his soul is grieved to death,
Job 18:2“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
Job 27:12Behold, you—all of you—have seen, || And why [is] this—you are altogether vain?
Psalms 13:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. Until when, O YHWH, || Do You forget me forever? Until when do You hide Your face from me?
Psalms 55:21His mouth has been sweeter than honey, || And his heart [is] war! His words have been softer than oil, || And they [are] drawn [swords].
Psalms 64:3Who sharpened their tongue as a sword, || They directed their arrow—a bitter word.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:2-8
The Reply of Job to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not… Read the whole commentary →